Teflon Don: Trump’s legal woes
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The Economist
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
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Donald Trump endured an FBI raid, questioning in a civil lawsuit and an adverse court ruling, all in 48 hours. But at least in the short-term, he’s making political hay from his legal woes. Why Apple’s future increasingly rests on services rather than just hardware. And how France is coping with a mustard shortage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.4 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.3 | And in New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:11.3 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.8 | There are few turnaround stories in the world of business so tied to a single product as |
| 0:23.0 | the tale of Apple and its iPhone. |
| 0:25.8 | About 15 years on, the company is going to need another blockbuster gizmo or more likely |
| 0:31.2 | to move its focus away from gizmos. |
| 0:34.9 | And France is suffering a shortage of one of its most beloved condiments. |
| 0:39.2 | Our Paris bureau chief explains why and heads to Dijon to try a score a pot of no-stay |
| 0:44.6 | in gold. |
| 0:55.8 | First up though. |
| 1:07.1 | As he left Trump tower yesterday, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, |
| 1:13.3 | paid silent. |
| 1:18.3 | At his destination, the New York Attorney General's office, that silence continued. |
| 1:24.4 | Mr. Trump refused to answer questions in the state's investigation into his family's |
| 1:28.5 | business practices, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, something |
| 1:34.3 | he previously mocked. |
| 1:41.3 | And yet that was not the most extraordinary moment in Mr. Trump's week. |
| 1:53.1 | On Monday evening, he revealed the FBI had executed a search warrant at his floor at home, |
| 1:59.0 | something that has never happened to a former president. |
| 2:09.1 | James Bennett is our Lexington columnist. |
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